When an armed man burst into a pizza restaurant in Washington DC to investigate a baseless conspiracy theory, it was the final straw for Bethany Quinn.
Quinn’s friends often took their children to eat at Comet Ping Pong pizzeria, which gunman Edgar Maddison Welch wrongly believed was the home of a Satanic child sex cult involving Hillary Clinton. The terrifying incident in her hometown in 2016 made Quinn start planning her escape from the US.
It was six years before she finally boarded a flight from Washington to Amsterdam to start a new life in the Netherlands, convinced that Donald Trump would win re-election and be back in the White House. When that became a reality two years later, Quinn set up her own agency to help other Americans do what she did.
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The name is a blunt reflection of the emergency that she sees unfolding back home: GTFO Tours, or Get The F**k Out. Quinn told The i Paper: “I think there’s this idea of the American dream, this idea of the US as a really tolerant land of opportunity, but the big thing is, it’s a lie.
